Show 983: Intriguing Approaches to Overcoming Depression

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Antidepressant medications have become part of popular culture ever since Prozac came on the market in the mid-1980s. Only those who have weathered a suicidal crisis themselves or watched a loved one face such an emergency may truly appreciate how inadequate our current antidepressants are in such circumstances. Ketamine An old drug, ketamine, is now […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.9	And I'm Terry Graydon.
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0:27.4	Suicide is an act of desperation.
0:32.5	Antidepressants take weeks to work.
0:35.0	An old drug offers new hope for severe depression. This is the People's Pharmacy
0:40.4	with Terry and Joe Graydon. Katamine has been used for decades as an anesthetic during surgery.
0:53.6	It's also a club drug, known as Special K,
0:56.4	but in the right hands, it might offer a novel way
0:59.4	to alleviate suicidal thoughts in hours rather than weeks.
1:04.4	Antidepressants don't work for everyone,
1:06.6	and they can cause unpleasant side effects.
1:09.8	Non-drug approaches can be surprisingly effective for dealing with depression.
1:15.3	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the latest research on ketamine
1:18.8	and clinical insights from Dr. Steve O'Lardy.
1:24.2	First, this news.
1:28.7	In the People's Pharm health headlines, people who have had a heart attack are supposed to take anti-clotting drugs for at least a year to help prevent a recurrence.
1:38.6	But a new study from Denmark shows that during that year, these folks should stay away from popular pain relievers
1:44.8	such as dichlofenach, ibuprofen, or neproxin.
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